[Info-vax] AXPbox performance and tried to boot OpenVMS Alpha 6.2

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/26/2020 6:46 AM, Ben Lambert wrote:
> On Thursday, 26 November 2020 at 11:16:31 UTC, Joukj wrote:
>> I tested with the version of vups.com I found at:
>>
>> http://www.astro.multivax.de:8000/phillip/vup.com
>>
>> When I run it on a real ES40 with 2 667 Mhz EV67 processors and 2GB RAM,
>> OpenVMS 8.4 I get:
>> Approximate System VUPs Rating : 1092.0
>>
>>
>> when running it on axpbox (on Fedora 33 system with 2.60Ghz Xeon E5-2623
>> processor and 128GB RAM) running OpenVMS 8.4-2L1 with 1 800Mhz EV68
>> processor and 8GB RAM I get:
>> Approximate System VUPs Rating : 42.0
> 
> I just tested that same version of vup.com on CharonAXP (on an Intel i7-3770K (overclocked to 4.6Ghz), and 16GB 2400MHz RAM) running OpenVMS 8.4-2L1 with 4x EV67 and 8GB RAM.  I get:
> Approximate System VUPs Rating: 877.0

That its a big difference.

But maybe CharonAXP does JIT compile and AXPBox does not.

Arne